mediately

mediate +‎ -ly

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdi.ətli/
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ate‧ly

mediately (not comparable)

1. In a mediate manner, by the intervention of an intermediary agent or means; indirectly. [from 15th c.]

   Synonym: indirectly

   Antonyms: directly, immediately

   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII:

     A second [question] is, whether these Eggs are immediately dropt into the Water by the Gnats themselves, or, mediately, are brought down by the falling rain […]

   • 1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, page 318:

     The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “mediately”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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